Calacanis: Apple to release networked HDTVs — Yesterday I spent a couple of hours here at the office with Valleywag's most cherished and adored tech celebrity, Jason Calacanis. Love him or hate him, the bloke's got contacts, and he confirmed to me that he knew first-hand that Apple was working on a networked television.

YouTube to Offer TV Shows With Ads Strewn Through — After months of experimenting with long-form video, YouTube said on Friday it would start offering full-length episodes of some television shows on its sprawling Web site. — The staggering growth of YouTube — five billion videos …

11 troubled Web companies: The next Kozmos? — “We are going to lose some good companies.” That's the warning cry from investors in tech these days. — Some we won't miss, of course: the lame, me-too, or single-featured “products” masquerading as businesses. But be prepared.

Team Cyprus Move To Undo “The Video” — A group of twenty or so tech elite were partying 1999-style in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of the Journey song “Don't Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv …

Stupid rock band totally pwns Google — Google's Hot Trends page has been gamed before, but today's #1 spot is the best ever — a dorky-white-guys rock band named Captain Caucasian and the Raging Idiots. No KKK references, just a bunch of guys with guitars and a singer whose baseball cap is two sizes too big.

Tough times. Tough decisions. — As you will no doubt know we are all operating in some very challenging and uncertain times right now. It's never easy to address topics like this but as a company we have felt the need to get Seesmic ready for what most are anticipating to be a bleak economic outlook …

Over 300 iPhone Apps Use Location Look-Ups — According to Skyhook Wireless over 300 iPhone apps are location-aware as of October 3rd. According to Mobclix there are over 4,000 apps in circulation. If these numbers are correct this puts the location-aware percentage at under 10% — far …

New machine prints sheets of light — NISKAYUNA, New York (AP) — On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete. — It's a machine that prints lights.

Mafiaboy Grows Up; a Hacker Seeks Redemption — The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours. — That was on the morning of Feb. 7, 2000.

Embed a Part of a YouTube Video — If you want to embed a YouTube video that starts to become interesting somewhere in the middle, there's a simple way to skip the boring part. YouTube's embedded player has a parameter that lets you specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video.

Chinese Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to come sans 3G, WiFi — It's a sad day for every Nokia fan in China. Apparently Nokia's iPhone killer, 5800 XpressMusic, will come without 3G and WiFi support. And while I can understand the lack of 3G radio because of Chinese TD-SCDMA standard, lack of WiFi is not that easy to explain.

Searching for Cheap Gas? — Driving across town to find gas that's a few percent less expensive may have seemed silly a few years ago, but nowadays it's becoming a lot more rational. With gas prices up 71% compared to last year and no relief in sight, we thought a Yahoo! …

Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week — It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. — (Update: I originally said “Silverlight 2.0 in this post. But I've heard from a couple of Softies they are calling the next version plain old 2.)